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Scientific American: Hearing the Music, Honing the Mind
Music produces profound and lasting changes in the brain. Schools should add classes, not cut them. Nearly 20 years ago a small study advanced the notion that listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major could boost mental functioning. It was not long before trademarked “Mozart effect” products appealed to neurotic parents aiming to put toddlers on the fast track to the Ivy League. Georgia’s governor even proposed giving every newborn there a classical CD or cassette.
The evidence for Mozart therapy turned out to be flimsy, perhaps nonexistent, although the original study never claimed anything more than a temporary and limited effect. In recent years, however, scientists have examined the benefits of a concerted effort to study and prACTice music, as opposed to playing a Mozart CD or a computer-based “brain fitness” gameonce in a while.
Advanced monitoring techniques have enabled scientists to see what happens inside your head when you listen to your mother and ACTually prACTice the violin for an hour every afternoon. And they have found that music lessons can produce profound and lasting changes that enhance the general ability to learn. These results should convince public officials that music classes are a mere decoration, ripe for discarding in the budget crises that constantly trouble public schools.
Studies have shown that diligent instrument training from an early age can help the brain to process sounds better, making it easier to stay focused when absorbing other subjects, from literature to tensor calculus. The musically adept are better able toconcentrate on a biology lesson despite the racket in the classroom or, a few years later, to finish a call with a client when a colleague in the next cubicle starts screaming at an underling. They can attend to several things at once in the mental scratch pad called working memory, an essential skill in this era of multitasking.
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As is shown in the picture, when a dad asks his daughter “how was school today?”, his daughter would rather tell her father to read all about it on her blog than inform him face to face. This phenomenon demonstrates that internet communication is changing the traditional face-to-face communication.
What is the impACT of the internet on interpersonal communication? Initially, it prevents people from face-to-face communication. For example, some students would better send messages to their classmates to express themselves rather than talk to them directly. Furthermore, the internet communication is making people lose their regular and necessary communication skills. Take my friend Jack as an example. He is popular online due to his insightful thought and prominent writing skill. But in his daily life, he is so shy that he cannot talk to others.
Internet, from my perspective, does harm to our interpersonal communication. And we should place much emphasis on face-to-face communication.
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82. I think that the meal is well (没有折扣的情况下值80美元)
答案：worth 80 dollars before discount.
考点：worth的用法
83. (面对来自其它公司的激烈竞争), the automobile manufACTure is considering launching a promotion campaign.
答案：Confronted with the intense rivalry from the competitors
考点：分句与主句的关系
84. As far as hobbies are concerned, Jane and her sister (几乎没有什么共同之处)
答案：almost have nothing in common with each other.
考点： 短语的用法
85. Only after many failures (我才意识到仅凭运气是不能成功的)
答案：did I realize that nobody would succeed solely because of their good luck.
考点：倒装句和时态
86. But for the survival instinct which nearly all creatures have, (更多的物种就可能已经在地球上灭绝了)
答案：more species would have extinguished from the Earth.
考点：表过去相反的虚拟语气
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